In our first “Winner Profile” we are pleased to introduce you to Alexandra Bochkareva. She won our Photo of the Week competition in September with her stunning portrait seen here titled, “For Now I’m Autumn.”

Alexandra is an multi award winning photographer currently living in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Among her list of accomplishments are:

Winner of Best in Russia

Winner of Adme Awards

Finalist of HIPA

Honorable mention IPA Awards

Alexandra focuses her work on redheads and individuals with freckles, saying that she is, “really addicted to their unique beauty.” She says that this passion “came from my family and friends, so this love to gingers used to be a part of my life from the very beginning.” She began her ongoing project “Redheads’ Stories” a couple of years back and you can see more of her project on her Instagram page.

Alexandra prefers to work almost exclusively with natural light. In addition, she states that most of the models are natural-without makeup and that all of the animals she incorporates into her work are real and not Photoshopped.

You can follow Alexandra and see more of her work on her Facebook and Instagram pages.